Briareos Hecatonchires (ブリアレオス・ヘカトンケイレス, transliterated as Buriareosu Hekatonkeiresu) is one of the two protagonists of the Appleseed franchise, the other being Deunan Knute. Briareos is a trained ES.W.A.T. operative, his point man (or point woman, really) being Deunan, whose markmanship and strategizing skills he is still unable to rival despite his cybernetic augmentations. They met in her father's LAPD SWAT unit before World War III broke out, later both serving in the same US Army platoon during the conflict.